Data becomes the GOP’s new currencyBy Jeremy Alford LaPolitics News Service If you’re one of Louisiana’s 2.9 million registered voters, the state Democratic Party has a file on you. The Louisiana Republican Party does, too. Even if ...

Letter to the EditorDear Editor: I’m writing to commend the staff of the Natchitoches Times for putting out a fabulous edition Thursday, Dec. 18. Every page was full of life, and made me proud to be a resident of our ...

Letters to the EditorDear Editor: I am a retired surgical nurse who has lived in the Oak Point Estates Subdivision for 3 and a half years. I’ve been walking the neighborhood for all the length of time I’ve lived here. ...

Letter to the EditorDear Editor: Not only are we in trouble. We are, to put it simply, in one “hell of a mess.” Here are the causes and “things” which have, over the relatively few years of being a nation, in my opini...

Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting for the painThere simply aren’t enough candy canes in the North Pole to sugarcoat the harsh reality that is the state’s finances, which are worsening with each passing month. Like Santa inching his way down th...